Who is in the Great British Bake Off 2017 final and who has been eliminated?

The line-up for Bake Off 2017 included a trainee stuntwoman, the oldest ever contestant and a software developer who has survived cancer.

Kate, 29, from Merseyside, is a health and safety inspector who also dabbles in blacksmithing, furniture restoration and yoga.

Steven, 34, from Hertfordshire, has a background in marketing, but his heart lies in the kitchen – he has lost an impressive five stone thanks to his own home-cooking.

Sophie, 33, from Surrey, is a former Officer in the Royal Artillery who is training to be a stuntwoman – she didn't discover her talent for baking until she volunteered to make a friend's birthday cake.

Eliminated

Peter, 52, from Essex, is an IT programme manager who lived in Nigeria from the age of seven and moved back to the United Kingdom when he was 24. He was eliminated in Week One.

Chris, 50, from Bristol, is a software developer who loves the science behind baking – a cancer survivor, he is passionate about helping other people whose lives have been affected by the disease. He was elimated in Week Two.

Tom, 29, from Edinburgh, is an architect who lives with his partner David and was taught to bake by his mother, a home economics teacher. He was elimianted in Week Three.

Flo, 71, from Merseyside, is the oldest amateur contestant to appear on Bake Off to date, and took up baking after the death of her husband, Richard, two years ago.

James, 46, from Essex, describes himself as a bald, baking banker – although friends say he looks more like a bank robber – and grows his own fruit and vegetables to incorporate into his recipes.

Julia, 21, from West Sussex, spent three years honing her baking prowess so she could enter Bake Off, and was originally from Kemerovo, Siberia.

Yan, 46, from North London, moved from Hong Kong to the UK with her family when she was two, and started to bake seriously 10 years ago.

Noel's appointment is definitely one of the most surprising of the three

Noel is equally as pleased to be working with Sandi, saying: "GBBO is one of my favourite shows.

"I’ve always loved brightly coloured cakes and Sandi Toksvig so this is a dream come true for me!

"It’s basically the double."

What is The Great British Bake Off 2017's format?

The Sun exclusively revealed in April that Channel 4 were sticking to the same tried and tested recipe for the new series – by using the same venue, tent and theme tune.

In previous years 12 eager hopefully have entered the tent in the first episode with one being eliminated each week until the final three battle it out in the grande finale.

Each episode has three challenges, the signature bake, the technical bake and the show stopper challenge, with the judges Paul - and previously Mary Berry - offering their expert opinions on the contestant's attempts.